I'm much better having an exception get handled at the time of input than to let that prop -- that value rather propagate through a whole bunch of code until eventually it hits an error 17 calls later, and you have no clue where it came from.

不是我期望的格式,这时我最好有一个异常处理,而不是让其传下去,这个值传到代码的整个分支,最终会导致一个错误17调用的发生，并且你不知道这个错误是哪里来的。

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So of course, the language is only a clue.

当然,语言只是文化的一部分

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We don't really have a clue yet, or not much of a clue, as to how you could even so much as begin to-- it's not that merely that we don't have the details worked out.

毫无头绪,或者说,无从下手,你如何在这种情形下开个头,我们不只是不知道细节如何

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And then, of course, she gets a major clue for figuring out what the whole story is behind the Tristero and the post horn.

接下来，她自然得到了一个重要的线索,关于藏在Tristero，和驿车号之后的整个故事。

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So you get a clue as to what we're supposed to think about him, and he makes a speech which denounces all of the basileus, Agamemnon ahead of any of them.

因此可以想见我们该会怎样看待他,他发表了一番言论,当众谴责了这些首领,尤其是阿伽门农

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